..."We speak not strictly when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Eeason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend...to any other office than to serve and obey them." " 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of I the whole world to the scratching of my...

...control over action. If by reason Hume meant what we are calling intellect, he was right when he said that reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions. Its normal function is to think out the means to an end already chosen. In the cases where the true...

...sect. iii. : " Reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will," "Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them "; and the whole section. 3 Principles of Social .Reconstruction, p. 12: "Only passion can control...

...sect. iii.: " Beason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will," " Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them ''; and the whole section. 3 Principles of Social Reconstruction, p. 12: "Only passion can control...

...tendencies, impulses, desires, and feelings, these and nothing else."* and Hume, still earlier, asserted, " Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey." 2 Though we may regard the statement as a little sweeping •*• Psychology of Emotions, p. 98. *...

...reason, which was to have far-reaching influence on public morality. Hume, writing in 1739, declares: "Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions, and never can pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." Rousseau takes his cue from this...

...the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person totally unknown to me. . . . Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend...to any other office than to serve and obey them." Rousseau derived equality from the State of Nature, Paley from the Will of God, Bentham from a mathematical...

...faculty of sight, they do possess the power of vision. So cool a logician as David Hume has said: " Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions, and never can pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." V Before I pass on to the question...

...IP motives of when we talk of the combat 01 passion and of reason, ^e wm_ Eeaaon is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other...

...which has such an efficacy, — (ibid., pp. 414-415) Hume concludes that "reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" (ibid., p. 415). It therefore follows that there is no conflict between reason and the passions. Herbert...